Ohio Democrats omit wet issue from platform
Columbus September 15. Ohio Democratic leaders at the state convention plan to adopt a platform promising honest impartial law enforcement and pledge to enforce all laws while protecting constitutional rights. The plank calls for cleaning up Justice of the Peace courts and denounces profit from enforcement schemes and coercive fines. It stresses that enforcement should come from public authority and not special groups.
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Columbus
Aoe Ceeereat League
Democratic Party
Milton Sills Dies During Tennis Match at Home
Miltion Sills, 48, famed film actor and former mathematics professor, collapsed from a heart attack while playing tennis with his wife and son at his suburban Los Angeles home. He died at 6:45 p.m. after being rushed indoors and receiving care from police inhalator squad. Born in Chicago in 1882, Sills rose from Broadway stage to stardom in films and Shakespearean roles, with notable works including This Woman and This Man and The Governor's Lady.
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Los Angeles
Milton Sills
Sills
Doris Kenyon
Sawtelle
Chicago University
Chicago
Hyde Park High School
University of Chicaco
William Henry
Josephine Sills
Belasco
Frohman
Brady
The
Shuberts
Rainmaker Fails to Deliver at Belmont Park
Dr G I A Sykes rainmaking expert tried to induce rain during Belmont Park races but no moisture touched the track by 4 45 PM. Westchester Racing Association and Sykes parted ways over weather control with pay reduced to 500 for Saturday from 2500. The meeting’s finances show totals reaching 8990 to Sykes and associates.
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New York World News Service
Belmont Park Race Track
KR. Y
Sykes
Westchester Racing Association
Dr. Sykes
Westchester Racing Con
One More Pilgrimage to the Auld Country
A herd of thirty four musk oxen shipped from Greenland via Norway arrived in New York on the Bergensfjord today en route to Alaska to replenish the species. E A Preble and L J Palmer met the vessel and the musk oxen will undergo quarantine before transfer to Fairbanks for study and breeding. The aim is to reestablish the animals north of the Alaskan timberline, where they once roamed before extermination a century ago.
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New York
Greenland
Norway
United States Department of Agriculture
Bergensfjord
Alaska
E. A. Preble
Bureau of Biological Survey
Washington
L. J. Palmer
Bureau
Reindeer
Fairbanks
Seattle
Wash
Seward
Palmer
Saga of Joe's Car Bridge and a Dummy
Joe McGovern and friends drove over the Ben Fast street bridge when a passerby warned of a dangling figure. The car struck a pole, traffic halted, police and fire crews arrived, and a dummy was found hanging from the span after a dramatic rescue.
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Joe
Pittsburgh
Joe McGovern
Ben Fast Street
German propagandist Boy-Ed dies after horse fall
Capt Karl Boy-Ed a German propagandist and diplomat died near Hamburg at age 68 after a fall from his horse. Once linked to fraudulent passports and sabotage in US munitions plants he was recalled in 1915 and later decorated by the Kaiser for his propaganda. His death ends decades as a noted figure tied to Washington circles before and during World War I.
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Hamburg
Germany
Karl Boy-Ed
United States
Here
Boy-Ed
Virginia Mackay-Smith
Pennsylvania
Washington
Count von Bernstorff
American State Department
Kaiser
Fascists Hold Upper Hand in Reichstag Contested Coalition
Berlin dispatch notes that after 34 million German voters backed 576 Reichstag members, forming a workable government remains complex. Chancellor Bruening’s Centrists sit pivotal as 15 parties hold seats and fascists and communists surge. Possible coalitions split between expanding to include Socialists or assembling a rightist bloc.
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Berlin
Heinrich Bruening
Bruening
Farmers’ League
People’s Party
Economic Party
Landbund
Gustav Stresemann
Nanking Landing Party Hero Follows Pal To Death
Lieut Woodward Phelps eldest son of Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps was found dead by a self inflicted gunshot on the Northampton at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A Naval Board of Inquiry ruled the death a suicide and noted a clipping about Lieut Commander Benjamin F. Staud who died in Southampton. Phelps had led a landing party from the Noa at Nanking during Chinese disturbances. Both men had been commended for bravery. Admiral Phelps commanded the Navy Yard at Brooklyn.
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New York
Woodward Phelps
William Woodward Phelps
Northampton
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Naval Board of Inquiry
Benjamin F. Staud
Phelps
Navy Yard
Ensign
United States
Noa
Nanking
Staud
Admiral Phelps
United States Navy Yard
Lipton Loses Second Race To Enterprise
Harold S. Vanderbilt’s Enterprise wins its second straight America’s Cup tune up, beating Lipton’s Shamrock V by nine minutes thirty four seconds on a nine by ten mile triangular course off Newport. Lipton’s boat was two and a quarter miles behind as fog closed in.
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Alan Gould
Newport
R. I
Harold S. Vanderbilt
Enterprise
Shamrock V
Sir Thomas Lipton
Lipton
Brenton Reef
Lenger
Vanderbilt
Shamrock
Shamrok
Sir Thomas
Ruth Hanna McCormick accuses Nye of wire tapping plot
Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick charged Senator Gerald P Nye adjourned the Senate Investigating Committee session to avoid exposure. She claimed Nye's staff tapped her telephone wires and said Nye would be unfit for the Senate if aware of such activity. The Nye committee seized telegrams showing Dannenberg detectives shadowed Nye Dill Moses and other senators. Patterson condemned the probe as overreach.
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Chicago
Ruth Hanna McCormick
United States Senate
Gerald P. Nye
Senate
Senator Nye
New York World News Service
Senate Committee
Denis .N.oy
Dale
Rep. Vt
Patterson
Rep
Moses
R. F. Bashford
Danhenberg
Department
Cleveland Bank Closes Amid Liquidation Effort
Cleveland bank inspectors closed Merchants Trust and Savings Bank and its branch to liquidate about 1.94 million in uncollected loans mostly tied to real estate. President Maurice Gusman and related interests faced large real estate loans as assets were conserved for depositors. Total resources stood at 2.56 million with deposits around 2.00 million and 400 thousand in capital stock.
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Cleveland
Merchants Trust and Savings Bank
O. C. Gray
State Bank Examiner
Gray
Maurice Gusman
Grand Jury Quiz Opens on Ohio Banks Closure
Formal call for a grand jury investigation into the closing of the Ohio State Bank and the Peoples and Drovers Bank was issued by Prosecutor W S Pason. The inquiry will begin Monday. Special assistant counsel Rei G Allen asked creditors and depositors to meet Friday to consider appointing a bankruptcy trustee for Mal Daugherty, former bank president and brother of Harry M.
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Washington Court House
Washington C. Hi
Ohio State Bank
Peoples and Drovers Bank
W. S. Pason
Monda
Rei G. Allen
Gilbert Bettman
Ohio
Mal
Daugherty
Harry M
Slap at truant officer sparks school clash in Missouri
In St Joseph a mother slapped truant officer Robert Critchfield and six Bliss Junior High pupils were expelled as parents clash with the Board of Education over moving elementary students to a different school. Parents plan a private school start tomorrow as protests escalate. In Hazelton Pennsylvania striking students hire attorney Lawrence P. Dailey to seek changes to a new noon lunch rule, though Dailey reportedly declined to take on the case.
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Missouri
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Boards of Education
ST. Joseph
Bliss
Board of Education
Bliss School
Robert Critchfield
Hazelton
Lawrence P. Dailey
Hazelton High School
Dailey
City News Indicates Imminent Street Car Fare Rises
August fare control fund drops to 297,894.10 triggering optional fare raises or transfer charges under franchise. City officials and Street Railway President Walter Draper plan conference. drastic action unlikely. Economies reportedly stem fund loss and a proposal for 100 more single cars risks 200 layoffs.
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Walter Draper
Draper
Julian Pollak
City Council Public Utilities Committee
Special probe in Ewald case opens grand jury inquiry
New York officials outlined a broader inquiry into possible effects or a system behind judicial appointments. The grand jury may probe payments to George F. Ewald and others tied to his appointment. Key figures include Mrs Ewald Martin J Healy Tammany leader and Thomas Tammaney who carried funds. The investigation also touches on the Crater disappearance and political pressures from Crater supporters.
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New York
Roosevelt
George F. Ewald
Supreme Court
McCook
Ward
Grand Jury
Ewald
Justice McCook
Martin J. Healy
Tammany
Thomas T. Tammaney
Healy
New York World News Service
Joseph Force Crater
Joseph Clerk Baldwin III
Board of Aldermen
Crain
Baldwin
Citizens group to go on ballot as independents
A Chicago man using the name Ismerald Harris was booked on murder and fugitive warrants in Louisville. Detectives seek to identify him as Ted Geisking, accused of killing Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle. Harris and a boy named Stanley Harris were held on bond, later reduced. Photos in a local paper spurred belief they may be Geisking, as Chicago authorities and Indiana officials await identification. Habeas corpus actions were filed for Harris.
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Louisville
Ismerald Harris
Chicago
Attem
Ted Geisking
Alfred Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Harris
Stanley Harris
Geisking
George Riley
State’s Attorney's
Emerald Harris
London
Alfred Tingle
G. S. Stacey
David Hodge
John H. Gauley
Indianapolis
Robert W Ruddell
South Bend
Ind
Laurel County
Joe Meyers
Dayton
Clarence McKee
Meyers
McKee
Carl Losey
Indiana
John Hubbard
Artemus
Secretary rules on Citizens party ballot placement in Ohio
Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown ruled that candidates on a Citizens party ticket in Hamilton County may appear on the November ballot as independents but without a party designation. The decision hinges on conflict between election statutes 4785-100 and 4785-61. A formal announcement was delayed as Brown was away from Columbus.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Clarence J. Brown
Citizens’ Party
Hamilton County
Secretary of State
Ford Bader, Jr
Citizens
Kuertz
W. Jerome Kuertz
Bader
Sanford Headley
Citizens Party
Gilbert Bettman
Cleveland
Brown
Bettman
Blanchester
Slain Covington Man Dies After Rain Crash
Claude B. Petty 36, an egg candler of Covington Kentucky, died after a speeding auto skidded on wet pavement at Ridge and Mapleleaf avenues in Pleasant Ridge. Driver Russell Wahle 24 of Bellevue was charged with manslaughter. Three cars collided, Petty died at General Hospital from internal injuries.
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Claude B. Petty
Main Street
Covington
Ridge and
Mapleleaf Avenues
Pleasant Ridge
Petty
General Hospital
Russell Wahle
Berry Avenue
Bellevue
Ridge Avenue
Mapleleaf Avenue
Harry Federle
West Liberty Street
Cincinnati RKO Theaters To Be Remodeled Reported
Special Dispatch from New York notes extensive improvements planned for Cincinnati RKO theaters. Lyric Theater to gain interior remodel and more seats, boosting capacity to about 3,000. Stage upgrades may allow vaudeville or presentation programs alongside films. Local officials deny details. no official notice of such changes.
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The
Commercial Tribune
New York
Cincinnati
RKO
Lyric Theater
Moving Pictures
Citizens party may pursue legal challenge over independent run ruling
Leaders of the Citizens party had not decided on action if Secretary of State Brown rules that its candidates must run as independents. A meeting at Robert Heuck home formed a legal committee including Murray Seasongood and C O Rose to study the issue and report whether to seek court action. A platform committee was also named with Seasongood Taft Espy Ach Heuck and Gorman.
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Citizens Party
State Brown
Robert Heuck
Jefferson Avenue
Murray Seasongood
C.O. Rose
Sanford Headley
Robert N. Gorman
Charles P. Taft II
Arthur Espy
Samuel Ach
Keaton Sentenced to Hanging for Flint Murder in California
Inglewood real estate man Frank D. Keaton was sentenced by Superior Judge B. Rey Schauer to be hanged at San Quentin for the murder of Motley H. Flint, a Los Angeles financier. The Sept. 15 ruling follows a high profile case in California criminal courts.
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Los Angeles
Cal
B. Rey Schauer
Frank D. Keaton
Inglewood
San. Quentin Penitentiary
Motley H. Flint
Temperatures and weather notes across states with temps and rain
The report lists temperatures for Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana West Virginia and other locations with highs and lows and precipitation. It notes showers cooler conditions in many areas and partly cloudy to fair skies into midweek, plus a September 15 1930 record table showing highs lows and rainfall across major cities.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
New York
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S.s.marie
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J’ksonville
Duluth
Seis
Atlanta
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Galveston
Omahe
Pittsburgh
Denver
S.W
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